Against the toughest competition in the nation, two members of the Yale men’s fencing team — junior Peter Cohen and sophomore Hugh O’Cinneide — battled diligently to earn the Bulldogs a 11th-place finish at the Mar. 21-24 NCAA National Championship.

Two members of the Yale men’s fencing team have qualified for the Mar. 21-24 NCAA National Championship: junior Peter Cohen and sophomore Hugh O’Cinneide, who will compete in epee and saber, respectively.

It was a difficult Saturday for the Yale men’s fencing team, as it went 0-4 in the opening day of the Mar. 2-3 Ivy League Championships here at Harvard’s Albert H. Gordon Track. That performance put the Bulldogs in sixth place at the championships, with one final round on Sunday.

Opening its season with the Nov. 3-4 Penn State Garret Open here in University Park, Pa., the Yale men’s fencing team saw three of its fencers finish in the top 16 in their respective weapons categories.